Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
I recently watched a rank novice win
I recently watched a rank novice win $10,000 in an hour-long Poker session at the Dunes Hotel Casino in Las Vegas from five men who are considered to be among the twenty best Poker players in Las Vegas. That was chance, luck, a momentary aberration in the probabilities. They are inevitable in any gambling game. If it weren't for them—and the long-odds winning they make possible—gambling would be barren of what makes it gambling. Certainly luck operates, to this limited extent, within the theory of probability. All that the theory guarantees is that ultimately each player will have been dealt an approximately equal number of opportunities to win, an approximately equal number of good, bad and indifferent hands.
Five or more players, equally skilled, playing Poker once a week
Five or more players, equally skilled, playing Poker once a week for a year will probably have won and lost an equal number of big and small pots. So much for probability. So much for luck.